18 In Memoriam: Henry Culpin. 
held, and the lucidity of his Reports on the Union’s finances 
will long be remembered by those who heard them. 
In his own town of Doncaster, also, he took a prominent 
part in the work of the local Scientific Society, of which he 
had been a member for twenty years, and occupied almost every 
office, including that of President. He was also instrumental 
in connection with the formation of the town’s Museum, and 
gave practical assistance by the gift of many local geological 
specimens. ; 
Mr. Culpin’s most valuable scientific work, however, has 
been in connection with the geology of the Doncaster neigh- 
bourhood. In recent years the district in which he lived has 
been bored in all directions for coal. As each boring has 
progressed, Mr. Culpin, practically single-handed, has recorded, 
with most minute accuracy and detail, the various beds passed 
through. He has also collected extensively from them and cor- 
related them one with another. The results of this work are 
proving not only scientifically useful, but of great practical and 
economical importance. There is no question that were it not 
for this painstaking work, much that is of value would have been 
for ever lost. One of his discoveries—a bivalve previously 
undescribed, (Aviculopecten culpini)—was named after him. 
In a paper read at the Sheffield Meeting of the British 
Association he was able to add four to the list of five marine 
bands previously recorded in the Yorkshire Coal Measures. 
He also paid considerable attention to the usually neglected 
and difficult Permian strata, and details of his discoveires have 
appeared in The Naturalist. The Glacial geology of the dis- 
trict also attracted his attention. 
The Naturalist has contained the following articles from 
his pen. They include his first published paper, and his last :— 
“An Exposure of Upper Coal Measures near Conisborough ’ 
(Feb., 1905, p. 40); ‘ Recent Exposures of Glacial Drift at 
Doncaster and Tickhill” * (Sept:,; 1906, pp: 325-327);  Geo-) 
logical Notes on Askern’ (Oct., 1906, pp. 369-370) ; ‘ Geology 
of Thorne (Sept., 1907, pp. 317-318); ‘ Marine Beds in the 
Coal Measures near Doncaster’ (Feb., 1908, pp. 39-40, and 
May, 1908, p. 169); ‘Permian Fossils in the Doncaster 
District ’ (Aug., 1909, pp, 279-280) ; and ‘ Marine Bands in 
the Yorkshire Coal Measures’ (Oct., Ig10, pp. 375-376). 
Details of his work have also appeared in the reports of 
the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union’s Carboniferous Fauna and 
Flora, and Erratic Blocks Committees. The Proceedings of 
the Yorkshire Geological Society contain two important papers 
by him dealing with the marine fossils in the coal measures, 
* This and the preceding paper were written jointly with Mr. G. Grace, 
+ These two papers were read before the British Association ; and 
abstracts appear in its Reports for the respective years. 
Naturalist, 
